"of Records as the largest shop in Europe. During the 1950s and 1960s, Tesco grew organically, and also through acquisitions, until it owned more than 800 shops. The company purchased 70 ""Williamson's"" shops (1957), 200 ""Harrow Stores"" outlets (1959), 212 ""Irwins"" shops (1960, beating Express Dairies' Premier Supermarkets to the deal), 97 ""Charles Phillips"" shops (1964) and the Victor Value chain (1968) (sold to Bejam in 1986). Jack Cohen's business motto was ""pile it high and sell it cheap"", to which he added an internal motto of ""YCDBSOYA"" (You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Arse) which he used to"
"Smithsonian Institution and with funding from H.J. Heinz, researched the issue. They defined the attributes of a supermarket as ""self-service, separate product departments, discount pricing, marketing and volume selling."" They determined that the first true supermarket in the United States was opened by a former Kroger employee, Michael J. Cullen, on 4 August 1930, inside a former garage in Jamaica, Queens in New York City. The store, King Kullen, operated under the slogan ""Pile it high. Sell it low."" At the time of Cullen's death in 1936, there were seventeen King Kullen stores in operation. Although Saunders had brought the"
"with the ""nickel on a quarter"" that the customer would save by patronizing the self-service store. Also, a popular expression of that time had to do with ""jingling your jitneys in your pockets."" Thus, Judge Stricker ventured the name Jitney-Jingle. There is a legend that ""Jingle"" got to be ""Jungle"" by virtue of a printer's error in the first advertisement. Rather it was a play on words by Mr. Will McCarty. Every Jitney would be a jungle of bargains that could save the customer a ""jitney"" on a quarter. Jitney Jungle Jitney Jungle was a chain of supermarkets that began"
"struggling company succeed in a poor economy and faced with increased competition from large department stores. On November 2, 2011, SYMS and Filene's Basement collectively filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with all stores to close by the end of the year. The combined companies had 46 locations and employed some 2,500 workers. Sy Syms (1926–2009), who was born Seymour Merinsky, was a former sports broadcaster and regularly appeared in the company's television and radio commercials. He is also credited with coining the company's slogan, ""An Educated Consumer is our Best Customer"". Syms was founder of the company and remained"
"1930. While working at Kroger, he developed the idea of a supermarket. He wrote a letter to the president of Kroger, proposing a new type of food store with a focus on low prices, larger square footage, cash sales, no delivery service, and low rent locations with lots of parking. In his proposal, Cullen suggested that this new type of store could achieve nearly ten times the volume and profits of the average Kroger or A&P store. Cullen's letter went unanswered. Undaunted, and confident in his ability to see his idea become a reality, he quit his job and moved"
"After fitting it out himself with a self-service supermarket layout, he soon opened under a red on white sign displaying ""Tom the Cheap"". His business model was essentially discounted trading margins and a no-frills service— he applied a 10% markup as opposed to the standard 25% from his competitors. Old and new customers soon flocked to the store, attracted by his shop-wide discounts which undercut his opposition. High turnover returned good profits and soon Wardle embarked on a dramatic and highly successful expansion programme. He opened his second store in Wembley in late 1957 and others in Scarborough, Bedford Park,"
"They argue that businesses profit by selling a good at a lower price and at a greater volume than the competition. Economist Thomas Sowell uses supermarkets as an example to illustrate this point: ""It has been estimated that a supermarket makes a clear profit of about a penny on a dollar of sales. If that sounds pretty skimpy, remember that it is collecting that penny on every dollar at several cash registers simultaneously and, in many cases, around the clock"". American economist Milton Friedman has argued that greed and self-interest are universal human traits. On a 1979 episode of ""The"
"Clarence Saunders (grocer) Clarence Saunders (9 Aug. 1881 – 14 Oct. 1953) was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked for most of his life trying to develop a truly automated store, developing Piggly Wiggly, Keedoozle, and Foodelectric store concepts. Born in Virginia, to Abram Warwick and Mary Gregory, Saunders mother died when he was five. In 1891, his father moved the family to Montgomery County, Tennessee, where his father worked as a laborer and sharecropper. Saunders"
"distributor Nash Finch, which dropped the name on all of the stores. Hinky Dinky was a pioneer in partnering with banks to open in-store banking offices. Reference made in Better Call Saul, by Kim Wexler episode 207 'Inflatable' Hinky Dinky Hinky Dinky was a supermarket chain based in Omaha, Nebraska, that operated mainly in Nebraska and Iowa. The Hinky Dinky grocery store chain was started by Jule, Henry and Albert Newman, brothers, and Ben Silver, a cousin, in Omaha in 1925. Another supermarket chain already existing was called Piggly Wiggly. Hoping to take advantage of the public's affection for a"
"GrandPa's GrandPa's or GrandPa Pidgeon's was a discount store founded in 1954 by Tom and Mildred Pidgeon, spreading across the midwest from its Bridgeton, Missouri (near St. Louis) origins, which remained truly ""discount"", when most others like Venture, Kmart and Target gradually raised prices in order to finance a more attractive layout and broader range of merchandise. Tom Pidgeon, born in Sebring, Ohio in 1902, was in the low price china business from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. He sold his company, Pidgeon Vitrified China in 1953 when he foresaw the impact plastic was having on the lower"
"used in the late 1980s) is ""Tops Never Stops ... Saving You More!"" The slogan, temporarily put on hiatus in 2001, was brought back and refreshed in 2006, as ""Tops Never Stops ... Giving You More!"". In 2010 the company again changed the slogan to ""Your Neighborhood Store, with More"". The company logo is a stylized spinning top and was introduced in 1973. Tops Friendly Markets Tops Friendly Markets is an American supermarket chain based in Amherst, New York, with stores in New York, Vermont, and northern Pennsylvania. Tops Friendly Markets was co-founded by Armand Castellani, who was born in"
"since few in Memphis had dared challenge Crump, one of the legendary city bosses in American politics. After 1928 Saunders' fortunes declined, and he did not write political ads again. Clarence Saunders (grocer) Clarence Saunders (9 Aug. 1881 – 14 Oct. 1953) was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked for most of his life trying to develop a truly automated store, developing Piggly Wiggly, Keedoozle, and Foodelectric store concepts. Born in Virginia, to Abram Warwick and"
"In the early 1900s, annual sales topped $60 million, and buying branches were located in New York City, London, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Berlin. The building has hosted the first escalators built in a department store and continues to be the second largest store in the world. Marshall Field took over the operations of the store in 1881 and became the first merchant to post the price of the goods in plain sight, which eliminated the common practice of haggling and charging whatever the buyer would pay. On top of that, Field stood behind his product with his famous slogan"
"and combined inexpensively made goods with extensive radio and television advertising. Many Americans who grew up in the 1950s and 60s recall the commercial jingles of the time. (""When the values go up up up/And the prices go down down down/Robert Hall this season/Will show you the reason/Low overheads - Low overheads."") The company also operated outlets of Robert Hall Village, where Robert Hall clothing was sold alongside other merchandise in stores of approximately 120,000 ft² in what's considered one of the forerunners of the discount superstore concept. Non-clothing retail areas were leased to other companies. In July 1977, Robert"
"shorten the store's name to SYMS after legal action was taken against him by his brother. Merns later had his name legally changed to Sy Syms to match the store. The company slowly expanded during the 1960s and 1970s. The company aired its first television commercial in 1974. In the commercial, SYMS debuted the company's slogan, ""An educated consumer is our best customer."" The slogan was used by SYMS until its close in 2011. By 1983, Syms had taken the company public with an initial public offering, netting himself about $25 million in the process, and expanded the chain to"
"ex sailor of the US Navy, Patrick Galvani, had been studying retailing before coming to the United Kingdom, particularly supermarkets. Galvani made a pitch to the board, which resulted in Britain's first supermarket opening in Streatham, South London in 1951 under the Premier Supermarket brand. While the average British retailer was taking £98/week, the average take at Premier was £1,000/week. The company developed an estate footprint of similar + retail outlets, all under the Premier Supermarkets brand. In 1960, in an attempt to develop a national footprint, Galvani made a pitch to the board to buy northern based Irwin's 212"
"the owner of a competing New England supermarket chain called First National Supermarkets. At one point, Kahn and Stemberg engaged in a price war over the lower price for Thanksgiving turkeys. Kahn sold Purity Supreme to the Supermarkets General Corporation in 1984 for $80 million. Through the transaction, Kahn became the chairman of Supermarket General. Privately, Kahn regretted selling Purity, saying he missed the interaction with his employees. Leo Kahn died at the Springhouse care facility in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston from a series of strokes on May 11, 2011, at the age of 94. Leo Kahn (entrepreneur)"
"though he later stopped contributions. Numerous places have been named after Kresge: S. S. Kresge Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain. The discounter was renamed the Kmart Corporation in 1977 and evolved into today's Sears Holdings Corporation, parent of Kmart and Sears. Kresge was born near Allentown, Pennsylvania, the son of Sebastian Kresge and the former Catherine Kunkle. Living on the family"
"Joseph E. Grosberg Joseph E. Grosberg (December 27, 1883 – July 25, 1970) was a pioneer in the American supermarket and wholesale foods industries. He was a founder and the president of Central Markets, a chain of grocery stores in upstate New York that established some of the first supermarkets in the United States, and is now known as Price Chopper. He was also a noted philanthropist, especially known for his support of Jewish causes as well as charitable activities in Schenectady and the Capital District of New York. Grosberg was born in 1883 in Russia. His father, Jacob Grosberg,"
"the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., the Board of Directors for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the San Diego Financial Review Panel. Sol Price Sol Price (January 23, 1916December 14, 2009) was the founder of FedMart, Price Club (which ultimately merged into Costco) and PriceSmart. He is considered a pioneer of the ""warehouse store"" retail model. Price was born in New York City, the son of Samuel and Bella Price, Jewish immigrants to the United States from Minsk (Belarus), in the early years of the"
"separate company called Price Enterprises, led by the younger Price. PriceSmart continues to operate warehouse clubs in Latin America and the Caribbean, while the domestic operations became Costco. Sam Walton of Walmart wrote in his book ""Made in America"" that he ""borrowed"" ""as many ideas from Sol Price as from anybody else in the business"". He added that he especially liked the idea of calling his discount chain ""Wal-Mart"" because he ""really liked Sol's FedMart name"". In 1983, Walton dined with Price and later that year the first Sam's Club opened in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Later when asked how it"
"Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. With his wife Pauline, Price resided in Beverly Hills, California. Price died on January 27, 2004 in Beverly Hills, at 95. Harold Price Harold Price (c. 1909 - January 27, 2004) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He worked for the Joe Lowe Corporation, which owned the Popsicle brand, and he was the founder of a subsidiary, Cottage Donuts, which sold frozen donuts. Price was born circa 1909 in New York City. His father, Louis, was a co-founder of the Joe Lowe Corporation. Price graduated from the Wharton"
"around the principle of caveat emptor, or ""buyer beware"", and transformed it into a plush shopping experience fit for the Gilded Age. Unconditional refunds, consistent pricing and international imports are among the Field innovations that became standards in quality retailing. Field's employees were also instructed not to push products on uninterested customers as was common practice in stores of the period. The quotes ""Give the lady what she wants"" and ""The customer is always right"" are attributed to Field. Though most famous today for his retail business, during his lifetime his wholesale business made far more money. During the 1880s,"
"Hinky Dinky Hinky Dinky was a supermarket chain based in Omaha, Nebraska, that operated mainly in Nebraska and Iowa. The Hinky Dinky grocery store chain was started by Jule, Henry and Albert Newman, brothers, and Ben Silver, a cousin, in Omaha in 1925. Another supermarket chain already existing was called Piggly Wiggly. Hoping to take advantage of the public's affection for a cute name (Piggly Wiggly was very successful) they came up with “Hinky-Dinky” (citation needed), which was taken from the World War I song, “Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous” (see ""Mademoiselle from Armentières""). In 1972, Hinky Dinky was purchased by Cullum"
"Pat Quinn (businessman) Pat Quinn (1 July 1935 – 23 November 2009) was an Irish publican, hotelier, music promoter, storyteller, former millionaire and founder of the Quinnsworth group, Ireland's first supermarket chain. He invented the term ""yellow pack"". According to ""The Irish Times"", he was ""one of the country's best-known business figures in the 1960s and 1970s"", ""the whizz kid of the Irish grocery business"" and ""a well-known figure in the Irish-Canadian community"" at his death. He worked, honeymooned and eventually settled with his family in Toronto. The ""Toronto Sun"" described him as ""County Leitrim's favourite son"". Quinn was born"
"Antonio, Texas, briefly ran a commercial promoting a sale themed around the occasion. In it the daughter of the store's owner, in conversation with two employees who stood behind her, explained how the store was recalling the Twin Towers' collapse by selling all its inventory at the price of twin-sized mattresses for the weekend with the slogan ""Twin Towers, Twin Price"". At the end of the ad, she inadvertently pushed the two employees into twin piles of mattresses behind her, one of which was topped with the American flag; both collapsed. After briefly expressing shock and horror, she turned to"
"needed, they formed a list of ""hard to get"" parts, and found sources to buy them. They then sold those ""hard to get"" parts, and as a result, their sales increased with a large demand and their business began to grow. The brothers also founded their business around the principles of customer service, using such slogans as ""Killing Yourself for Your Customer"", ""Always Trying to Raise the Bar"", and ""A Focus on Our People"". In fulfillment of this goal, they hired an engineer who was responsible assisting and understanding their customers’ needs. Later, they built a customer service department that"
"in 1971, and 410 stores in the western U.S. and $1.6 billion in annual sales by 2007. The company he built was based on the loyalty of the employees that was earned by giving them generous shares of the profit (half of a store’s profit went to employees of that store), lucrative benefits, and only promoting from within the company. In the communities served by these stores, the company became known for their advertising featuring employees running out to meet customers, an annual free beef promotion, and the company slogan: """"If we can't guarantee it, we won't sell it."""". Despite"
"Marion Barton Skaggs Marion Barton Skaggs, nicknamed M.B. (April 5, 1888 – May 8, 1976) was an American businessman and leading member of the Skaggs Family of retailers who expanded the predecessor of Safeway into a major supermarket chain. He was an advocate of the cash and carry system for grocery stores. His father was a Baptist minister and was convinced that the prevailing system of credit increased prices since grocers and storekeepers had to wait to get paid and made the customers overly dependent on those grocers and storekeepers. His father established a store in American Falls, Idaho. He"
"Sol Price Sol Price (January 23, 1916December 14, 2009) was the founder of FedMart, Price Club (which ultimately merged into Costco) and PriceSmart. He is considered a pioneer of the ""warehouse store"" retail model. Price was born in New York City, the son of Samuel and Bella Price, Jewish immigrants to the United States from Minsk (Belarus), in the early years of the 20th century. The family relocated to San Diego in the early 1920s. Price graduated from San Diego High School in 1931, attended San Diego State University in 1932, and earned his undergraduate degree (in philosophy) and a"
"6 November 1880, he opened the store in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, and formally called it a ""5¢ & 10¢ store"". There, he developed and fully established the nickel-and-dime concept into American culture. Frank spent time opening more stores, working the back end of the business, buying in bulk for all affiliates and ""friendly rivals,"" and buying from manufacturers to keep prices low. Meanwhile, Sum used his store to train new managers and develop many of the Woolworth concepts which included bright lighting, a polished high-luster floor, glass showcases, mahogany counters, and goods people could touch. Before this, clerks had to"
"many of which were repeated in their in-store advertising. The early circulars featured the ""free-spirit"" Ellis sternly commanded to work harder by the ""skinflint"" Andler. , Ellis still wrote most of the ad copy used in the ad flyers. Each Building #19 location offered free coffee with ""free fake cream"". Signs near the free coffee stand warned customers not to make fun of the poor quality of the coffee, because ""someday you'll be old and weak too"". Their price guarantee awarded a bottle of ""Chateau du Cheapo"" champagne if a competitor beat their price. In 2006, Building #19 put a"
"to Power Supermarkets. During the 1970s the slogan used was ""Let's get it all together at Quinnsworth"". Power Supermarkets Ltd. became the parent company but used Quinnsworth as its marketing name. The company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods plc. Quinnsworth is remembered for its choice of store sites, its most memorable act was the addition of the phrase Yellow Pack to the retailing lexicon. Towards the end of Quinnsworth's life, Yellow Pack was replaced by K.V.I. label as the low-cost generic grocery brand, and a high quality generic line called Premium Choice modeled after Loblaws President's"